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Post by icefire on Feb 7, 2008 4:00:01 GMT 1
I attahced it. I was thinking the menu is like a menu (duh), the wrench is per game settings, when you tap it or press the direction of it, it slides to the middle and the others slide to make room. The wrench shows the same screen, but when you tap the game it shows you a settings screen instead of launching it. New:  320x320  Old:  |
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Post by tgwaste on Feb 7, 2008 6:03:46 GMT 1
i like it.. cept the size wouldnt work on a 320x320 palm device.. it looks like its more for a widescreen like a PSP.  |
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Post by semi on Feb 7, 2008 10:22:16 GMT 1
I agree... with a 320x320 screen or 320x480, it's not going to work... so this means Tinnus would have to make a launcher that supports all kinds of screen resolutions  It does look nice though, but, I still perfer having the list organized by the emulators, NES, SNES, GB, GENZ etc instead of what you have on this pic, a mixed list... One other thing... I think the 3 buttons on the bottom is too big compare to the game list (they take away too much space on the whole screen), how about making those 3 buttons' icons smaller? because for me, I'd like to see more games on the list in each page, and having big buttons like those, that means I'll have to scroll/page up/down quite often, making it less user-friendly in a way. |
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Post by metaview on Feb 7, 2008 12:57:54 GMT 1
Well, would you really put more work into the GUI than the emulation or stability?
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Post by semi on Feb 7, 2008 13:43:24 GMT 1
Well, would you really put more work into the GUI than the emulation or stability? Not sure who you're asking, are you asking icefire? and if you're asking me, I am no programmer, but obviously stability comes first, then the GUI, why? |
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Post by Tinnus on Feb 7, 2008 14:30:36 GMT 1
Well, I do want a good-looking GUI |
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Post by countbuggula on Feb 7, 2008 15:38:44 GMT 1
But...someone with no emulation programming experience could throw a launcher together with just a little bit of generic programming ability. Heck I could probably do it if I had a Palm Dev environment set up.
Hmmm....
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Post by Tinnus on Feb 7, 2008 16:18:07 GMT 1
It would be good enough is someone could write a generic one with C/C++ and SDL  |
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Post by metaview on Feb 7, 2008 17:23:56 GMT 1
Well in LJP the launcher part looks already bigger and more complex than some emulation modules |
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Post by tgwaste on Feb 7, 2008 18:25:46 GMT 1
ya.. palm programing is soooo d**n confusing to me. I just dont get it yet. I can write an app, with a pulldown menu and a button that resets the device and thats about it. the whole window drawing thing is prolly the most confusing part.. why couldnt they just do it like curses or something  ah well.. someday itll just click I guess |
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Post by icefire on Feb 8, 2008 5:21:49 GMT 1
New version of my launcher possibility mockup: smaller icons, a scrollbar (not done), tabs for systems (I think that would rock in LJP btw), and a bigger rom listing area. How do you like it? Edit: The combined sections for roms are because i was too lazy to resize the tab image in all of the places. |
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Post by icefire on Feb 8, 2008 5:33:05 GMT 1
And it DOES work in 320*320! |
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Post by tgwaste on Feb 8, 2008 6:02:31 GMT 1
honestly I wouldnt want any of my consoles mixed together.
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Post by semi on Feb 8, 2008 8:25:30 GMT 1
That looks better than the old one now, very nice  thanks for taking the advice |
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Post by _Em on Feb 8, 2008 22:49:22 GMT 1
Tabs wouldn't be the best solution for consoles however, as you wouldn't be able to easily track the consoles currently loaded: Metaview has the current launcher only display consoles the user is actually using (has ROMs for). This is more useful in my view. Some way to merge the two would be nice too... carousel maybe (like picsel browser)?
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Post by icefire on Feb 9, 2008 4:09:35 GMT 1
The tabs could dissepear if the console has no roms, and i only mixed snes and nes because i was too lazy to make another tab.
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Post by samphex on Feb 9, 2008 18:28:34 GMT 1
I really like this kind of launcher, changing background as an option would be neat..
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Post by samphex on Feb 9, 2008 18:29:05 GMT 1
I really like this kind of launcher, changing background as an option would be neat.. Edit:I really feel one of the vista wallpapers would do it justice..... ;D |
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Post by icefire on Feb 11, 2008 1:47:06 GMT 1
should i upload a psd?
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Post by samphex on Feb 11, 2008 2:46:43 GMT 1
psd what? care to expand the acronym?
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Post by Tinnus on Feb 11, 2008 3:11:53 GMT 1
PhotoShop Document, I think. It's Photoshop's file format.
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Post by samphex on Feb 11, 2008 23:13:00 GMT 1
yea man, get it. lol short and quick to the point.
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Post by vilmos on Feb 12, 2008 18:16:44 GMT 1
The tabs could dissepear if the console has no roms, and i only mixed snes and nes because i was too lazy to make another tab. Honestly if you are too lazy to make the image of the launcher how do you expect someone to spend a couple of months programming the launcher? Put some effort in and you will have a better chance of it being programmed. |
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Post by icefire on Feb 18, 2008 21:15:00 GMT 1
Yeah, i think i should *goes off and opens photoshop*
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Post by samphex on Feb 19, 2008 0:36:31 GMT 1
Yeah, i think i should *goes off and opens photoshop* Ha. keep it up though. Looks really cool |
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Post by vilmos on Feb 19, 2008 22:48:38 GMT 1
Excellent!
Your launcher does look good btw. Make it really slick and I might pitch in and help code it. ;D
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Post by icefire on Feb 25, 2008 23:56:28 GMT 1
Might be hard to code though.
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Post by Tinnus on Feb 26, 2008 0:34:34 GMT 1
Ahh... no. At least what you show here (the ROM list) is really easy.
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Post by icefire on Feb 26, 2008 3:14:36 GMT 1
I meant the alpha transparency and the non-standard list... i really don't know but i don't see alpha trans that much.
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Post by Tinnus on Feb 26, 2008 4:27:34 GMT 1
You don't have to program the alpha transparency if the BG is static, but then, if so, it's just some math |
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ah well.. someday itll just click I guess 
